Hurley’s ex wins apology and damages over newspaper article

LIZ HURLEY’S former boyfriend, American film producer Steve Bing and his lawyer yesterday received a public apology at the High Court over an allegation that they had orchestrated a vicious campaign to destroy the actress’s reputation.

Solicitor Nathalie Paterson, for Mr Bing and prominent Los Angeles lawyer Martin Singer, told Mr Justice Gray in London that the libel action arose out of an article published in the Daily Mail in December 2001 which caused them both “considerable distress and embarrassment”.

She said the defendants were Associated Newspapers Ltd, the publisher of the Daily Mail, its editor Paul Dacre and journalist Daniel Jeffreys, who was employed by the newspaper at the time of publication.